— Rosa Parks African-American civil rights activist 1913 - 2005
— Chief Joseph Nez Percé Chieftain 1840 - 1904
Context: Tell General Howard I know his heart. What he told me before, I have it in my heart. I am tired of fighting. Our Chiefs are killed; Looking Glass is dead, Ta Hool Hool Shute is dead. The old men are all dead. It is the young men who say yes or no. He who led on the young men is dead. It is cold, and we have no blankets; the little children are freezing to death. My people, some of them, have run away to the hills, and have no blankets, no food. No one knows where they are — perhaps freezing to death. I want to have time to look for my children, and see how many of them I can find. Maybe I shall find them among the dead. Hear me, my Chiefs! I am tired; my heart is sick and sad. From where the Sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.
Speech in surrendering to General Nelson Appleton Miles after long evading a pursuit nearly to the border of Canada. (October 5, 1877)
— Neil Young Canadian singer-songwriter 1945
Tired Eyes
— W.B. Yeats Irish poet and playwright 1865 - 1939
— Brett Favre former American football quarterback 1969
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— Dave Eggers memoirist, novelist, short story writer, editor, publisher 1970
— Al Gore 45th Vice President of the United States 1948
Joking about reports that he had claimed to have invented the internet, as quoted in The Boston Globe (9 April 1999).
— Rosa Parks African-American civil rights activist 1913 - 2005
Context: People always said that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.
Rosa Parks: My Story, p. 116, Rosa Parks and James Haskins (1992)
